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Disabled analysis
The poem is called Disabled and is written by Wilfred Owen. The poem was written during the first world war, while Wilfred was in hospital in 1917. The background to the poem is the first world war. In the poem, Wilfred writes about a soldier who has become disabled during combat. The soldier has lost his legs, and the poet writes about the life of the soldier without legs. The soldiers feelings are expressed in the poem, and it clearly shows that the soldier is sad. The soldier has been sent home from war, to an institution. The poet tells about how the disabled soldier watches people around him have fun, play football and games that he can not take part in. He also compares the soldiers body to a queer disease, like it is something alien. Before the war the life of the soldier was normal, but now the girls wont even talk to him, they rather show interest to the “Whole” men. In other words, the poet is telling about a disabled soldier sitting in his wheelchair, while observing the “normal” people around him. The poem has a variety of rhythm and rhymes. In some stanzas the poet uses the traditional rhyming pattern, but in other stanzas he does not. By traditional rhyming pattern we mean that every last word in each line, rhyme with each other. The effect of the line breaks in this poem is that they make the poem rhyme, and therefore creates a rhythm in the poem. The sentences are complete , with short lines. The poet uses a comma or a full stop in the end of almost all lines. The use of the commas is to make rhythm in the poem, and the use of full stops shows that the point has been made. The poem contains mostly end rhymes , for example Wise – Eyes. There is no obvious structure in the poem, other than that each stanza consists of 6-9 lines. There is also contrast in the poem. The biggest contrast is the contrast between the disabled soldier and the normal people. There are metaphors and similes in the poem, an example of a simile is : All of them touch him like some queer disease. The use of comparisons like that gives a stronger image of how it is to be disabled. His body is compared to a queer disease and creates an association to something disgusting and different. Our understanding of the poem is that it was hard to be a disabled soldier after coming home from the first world war. Nobody showed any interest to the soldier, and he was just looked at as something not human. The theme of the poem is war, sadness and causes of the war. The message of the poem is that it is hard to be disabled and can be very sad. We thought the poem was very well written, and the poet uses many describing words to tell the story.
